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What's In a Name: Menke Katz on Changing Names and Changing Destinies
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Troim Katz Handler, daughter of Yiddish poet Menke Katz, speaks of her father's concern that she not change her name for fear that, as the Kabbalah says, she change her destiny as well.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Troim Katz Handler.
This excerpt is in English.
Troim Katz Handler was born in Los Angeles, California in 1927.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.